Systems and methods for IED design templates

• US 8,554,739 B2
• Filed: 01/13/2011
• Issued: 10/08/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 01/13/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Incorporated
• Inventors: Lee, Tony J., Thompson, Craig
• Primary Examiner(s): CHANNAVAJJALA, SRIRAMA T
• Application Number:
  US13/006,212
• Publication Number:
  US 20120185436A1
• Time in Patent Office: 999 Days
• Field of Search: 713/1, 713/300, 324/110, 703/18, 702/62, 370/338, 370/254, 709/203, 709/206, 709/213, 707/695, 707/672, 707665-671, 707/654, 707/694, 711161-162, 715/738, 715/740, 715/748, 717/105, 717/125, 345/594, 345/619, 345/650, 345/661
• US Class Current: 707/668
• CPC Class Codes: G01R 19/2513 Arrangements for monitoring electric power systems, e.g. power lines or loads; Logging
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 13/00 Interconnection of, or transfer of information or other signals between, memories, input/output devices or central processing units interface circuits for specific input/output devices G06F3/00 ; multiprogram control therefor G06F9/46; multiprocessor systems G06F15/16
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 17/00 Digital computing or data processing equipment or methods, specially adapted for specific functions information retrieval, database structures or file system structures therefor G06F16/00
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/00 Input arrangements for transferring data to be processed into a form capable of being handled by the computer; Output arrangements for transferring data from processing unit to output unit, e.g. interface arrangements

Abstract

Disclosed herein are a variety of systems and methods that may be utilized to facilitate the configuration of intelligent electronic devices using design templates. A design template may be configured to make available to the user only particular inputs that might need to be modified for a specific application of the intelligent electronic device. Use of templates, as disclosed herein, may simplify the task of configuring an intelligent electronic device. Data entered by the user may be utilized to generate a plurality of intelligent electronic device settings. According to various embodiments, the data entered by a user may be stored on the intelligent electronic device in an archive file. The archive file may also include other design information that a user may desire to store on the intelligent electronic device.

Claims

1. A computer program product stored on a non-transitory computer readable medium having a plurality of instructions stored thereon which, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to:

receive user input to a template;

generate a first set of IED settings based on the user input to the template;

transfer the first set of IED settings to an IED;

generate an archive file comprising the user input to the template, and one or more of the template, logic equations utilized to generate IED settings, numeric equations utilized to generate the IED settings, generated IED settings, previous IED settings, and an indicator of the date and time that the first set of IED settings are created;

establish communications with a file transfer protocol server resident on the IED; and

transfer the archive file using a file transfer protocol to a computer-readable storage medium comprised by the IED;

access the archive file;

regenerate the first set of IED settings based on the archive file;

store the regenerated first set of IED settings;

access a second set of IED settings the second set of IED settings comprising at least one setting that differs from the first set of IED settings;

compare the second set of IED settings to the regenerated first set of IED settings; and

identify the at least one setting that differs between the second set of IED settings and the first set of IED settings.

2. The computer program product of claim 1, further comprising instructions stored thereon which, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to include additional files identified by a user in the archive file.

3. The computer program product of claim 1, further comprising instructions stored thereon which, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to store the archive file on a user-accessible portion of the computer-readable storage medium.

4. The computer program product of claim 1, further comprising instructions stored thereon which, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to generate the archive file, transfer the archive file to the IED, and store the archive file without user intervention.